Definition of Slippery

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Slippery

Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.

Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.

Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.

Liable to slip; not standing firm.

Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.

Uncertain in effect.

Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.

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Slippery Quotations

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Earl Nightingale

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
Ambrose Bierce

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
Vladimir Nabokov

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
Ovid

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry B. Adams

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
John Dryden

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
David Herbert Lawrence

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
Leon Kass

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.
Michael Stipe

Slippery Translations

slippery in Dutch is glad, ongrijpbaar, glibberig
slippery in Italian is lubrico
slippery in Latin is lubricus
slippery in Spanish is escurridizo
slippery in Swedish is glatt, slipprig, hal

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